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Stick 148: Hi Faluter
Quick ViewButt, 9.5″ Extension & Joint Protector: $1,475
11.8mm Carbon Fiber Shaft with like ring: $450
Like Wood Shaft Joint Protector: $75 (gifted)
Total $1,925
Images show butt & extension after 1 turn and coated with CA (finish) to demonstrate what the final colors will be.
Most all of my butts contain spalted and stabilized wood. I harvest rotting wood from around where I live in western PA, dry it to zero percent humidity, and stabilize with Cactus Juice resin. The resulting material is significantly more dense than the original wood was — that’s why I can use a soft wood like walnut or cherry (on other sticks; this one’s all maple on a shagbark hickory core) and have it produce a hit like purple heart or some other dense wood.
Here’s what I love about this butt: The squiggles, the wood that wasn’t spalted, didn’t accept the resin, and retained its normal sandy brown color, and most of all, the spalted burlish/highly figured maple.
The squiggles sometimes mark the progress of the fungus that ate the wood. Sometimes the squiggles are one color on one side and another on the other, and since both sides are spalted, the only thing I can surmise is that different fungi consume trees differently, and something about the size or shape of the gaps they leave (where they eat wood, they leave air and fungus poop I guess) causes the wood to absorb different amounts of pigment in the resin.
Note, it’s only the color that changes, not the hardness of the stabilized wood, so it must be the size of the molecules in the pigment that prevent some of it from getting through. The resin is or the wood wouldn’t be hard. (Unstabilized spalted wood is so weak you can often break it in your hands. Stabilized spalted wood can be beat with a sledge hammer. I’ve done it on a couple YouTube videos to prove how it holds up.)
Other times there’s just lines everywhere and the color is consistent. Must have been a single fungus with a monster appetite.
Then there’s the wood that is not spalted and retains its wood look. Those areas tend to give significant depth and sometimes a 3D pop. Always fascinating.
Last, the burly stuff. The maple I used was so degraded on the outside I couldn’t tell if I was cutting a where a limb had met the tree or if it was a burl. Maple is capable of a lot of different patterns when it forms burl, among those patterns are the grain-any-whichway you see in much of the blue/turquoise.
Be sure to click on the magnifying glass on the top corner of the main pic. Makes it easy to go through all the images, sized to your screen. Also be sure to check out the close ups. This is some of the busiest and most beautiful spalted/stabilized maple you’ll see anywhere.
Monthly payments. No interest.
Woods Used: Spalted & Stabilized Hormtown Maple
Butt Length: 30″
Core: Shagbark Hickory (firm hit)
Collars: Phenolic
Probable full cue natural weight: 18-19 oz.
Pin: 3/8-10 mod; radial, or QR
Glue Date: 5/25/25
Earliest Finish Date: 12/25
CAFETERIA STYLE: email me at Clayton@charactercues.com if you’d like to purchase this butt with any of the following. I’ll protect the page for you and change the listing and price to include the items you’d like to purchase. To discuss on the phone, email first. 🙂
Carbon Fiber Shaft $450
Purple Heart Shaft: $400
Wood shaft: (any species, w/ matching ring) $350
- Maple
- Beech
- Ash
- Sassafras
- Walnut
- White Oak
- Hickory
- Honey Locust
- Beech
- Cherry
Matching wood joint protectors: $75 each
$2,000.00Original price was: $2,000.00.$1,925.00Current price is: $1,925.00. -
Stick 147: Team Colors
Quick View$775.00Butt & Joint Protector: $775
Most all of my butts contain spalted and stabilized wood. I harvest rotting wood from around where I live in western PA, dry it to zero percent humidity, and stabilize with Cactus Juice resin. The resulting material is significantly more dense than the original wood was — that’s why I can use a soft wood like walnut or cherry (on other sticks; this one’s all maple on a honey locust core) and have it produce a hit like purple heart or some other dense wood.
Here’s what I love about this butt: The squiggles and the wood that wasn’t spalted, didn’t accept the resin, and retained its normal sandy brown color.
The squiggles sometimes mark the progress of the fungus that ate the wood. Sometimes the squiggles are one color on one side and another on the other, and since both sides are spalted, the only thing I can surmise is that different fungi consume trees differently, and something about the size or shape of the gaps they leave (where they eat wood, they leave air and fungus poop I guess) causes the wood to absorb different amounts of pigment in the resin.
Note, it’s only the color that changes, not the hardness of the stabilized wood, so it must be the size of the molecules in the pigment that prevent some of it from getting through. The resin is or the wood wouldn’t be hard. (Unstabilized spalted wood is so weak you can often break it in your hands. Stabilized spalted wood can be beat with a sledge hammer. I’ve done it on a couple YouTube videos to prove how it holds up.)
Other times, such as the gold section, there’s just lines everywhere and the color is consistent. Must have been a single fungus with a monster appetite.
Still other places are like what I mention above as my favorite feature, where the wood is not spalted and retains its wood look. Those areas tend to give significant depth and sometimes a 3D pop. Always fascinating.
Be sure to click on the magnifying glass on the top corner of the main pic. Makes it easy to go through all the images, sized to your screen. Also be sure to check out the close ups. This is some of the busiest and most beautiful spalted/stabilized maple you’ll see anywhere.
Monthly payments. No interest.
Woods Used: Spalted & Stabilized Hormtown Maple (gold & black)
Butt Length: 30″
Core: Honey Locust (medium hit, like hard maple)
Collars: Phenolic
Probable full cue natural weight: 18-19 oz.
Pin: 3/8-10 mod; radial, or QR
Glue Date: 5/24/25
Earliest Finish Date: 12/25
CAFETERIA STYLE: email me at Clayton@charactercues.com if you’d like to purchase this butt with any of the following. I’ll protect the page for you and change the listing and price to include the items you’d like to purchase. To discuss on the phone, email first. 🙂
Butt $700
Carbon Fiber Shaft $450
Purple Heart Shaft: $400
Wood shaft: (any species, w/ matching ring) $350
- Maple
- Birch
- Ash
- Sassafras
- Walnut
- White Oak
- Hickory
- Honey Locust
- Beech
- Cherry
Matching wood joint protectors: $75 each
Extensions:
- 3-6″ Simple: $250
- 7-12″ Simple: $300
- 3-6″ Like-Design: $450
- 7-12″ Like-Design: $500
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Stick 146: Sir
Quick ViewCurrent Bid: $875.00
I started the auction on SIR while finishing it and uploading pics to the Character Cues facebook group. You can revisit that history and other sticks here.
This is a rare butt. I’ve only made 4 with any toadstool in them; this has the most. First time for joint protectors made from toadstool. It shrinks a lot when being dried and stabilized, and due to the growth patterns the pieces I stabilized were unable to provide any large parts. I have one more piece of toadstool and I have Amish friends sourcing more for me . I hope to get some this fall, but I’m also fine with gems being rare.
So the butt named Sir is a solid piece of hickory with slot rings and toadstool. Has a 2 ounce weight bolt in the butt that can be taken out and replaced with smaller increments, as well as an extension-accepting bumper (takes a 5/16-14 thread). Yes, I have another piece of toadstool that could form the basis of an extension. $450-$550 depending on length.
I mixed orange and copper mica with CA glue to fill the gaps that would otherwise all but disappear under a finish. The result is a glimmering world of tubules and geometric patterns that make one marvel at the Creator’s wild ass… creativity. I absolutely delight in seeing the care he put into a fungus because I’m waaaaaaaay cooler than a fungus. I rest knowing he puts that care into me too; up down big small he’s there. Sorry to get too God Freak Real with you, but sometimes you have to shout the truth. We live in a magnificently created universe.
Exhibit #1: Toadstool.
Woods Used: Solid Shagbark Hickory with a stabilized TOADSTOOL butt sleeve sided by triple slot rings.Collars: white Tomahawk (premium stuff)Extension Hardware Thread: 5/16-14Butt Length: 30″ (With bumper and joint protector, requires 32″ case)Butt Weight: 13.9 – 15.9 oz (contains removable 2 oz weight bolt, 3/8-16.)Pin: Radial (brass)Joint Collar: .85″Widest: 1.236″Warranty: Lifetime
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Stick LE143: Denim 80s Girls: Valerie, What?
Quick View$1,775.00Butt, Joint Protector, Extension: $1,775
Images show gaps on either side of the burl handle that will be larger to accommodate rings with 1/2″ rectangle slots, sandwiched between electric blue and black or white slot rings. Images also show extension that is not yet cut to 6″.
6 monthly payments. No interest. To see payment plans, add cue to your cart and view your cart.
Woods Used: Ash (blue), Black Cherry burl
Butt Length: 30″
Core: Purple Heart
Collars: White Tomahawk
Probable full cue natural weight: 19-21 oz.
Pin: Uniloc Quick Release
Glue Date:
Earliest Finish Date: 12/25
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Stick LE139: Denim 80s Girls: Bobbi Floats, Eric Keeps Time
Quick View$1,775.00Butt, Joint Protector, Extension: $1,775
Images show gaps on either side of the burl handle. These will be filled with 1 1/2″ black rings with 1/2″ burl rectangle slots, sandwiched between electric blue and black or white slot rings. Images also show 6″ extension that is not yet cut to size.
6 monthly payments. No interest. To see payment plans, add cue to your cart and view your cart.
Woods Used: Ash (blue), Black Birch burl
Butt Length: 30″
Core: Purple Heart
Collars: Phenolic
Probable full cue natural weight: 19-21 oz.
Pin: 3/8-10 mod; Radial, or QR
Glue Date:
Earliest Finish Date: 12/25
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Stick 115: Renegade Cheese
Quick View$775.00Butt & Joint Protector: $775
6 monthly payments. No interest. To see payment plans, add cue to your cart and view your cart.
Woods Used: Maple (yellow) Purple heart
Butt Length: 30″
Core: Hickory
Collars: Phenolic
Probable full cue natural weight: 18-19 oz.
Pin: 3/8-10 mod; radial, or QR
Glue Date: 10/25/24
Earliest Finish Date: 5/25
CAFETERIA STYLE: email me at Clayton@charactercues.com if you’d like to purchase this butt with any of the following. I’ll protect the page for you and change the listing and price to include the items you’d like to purchase. To discuss on the phone, email first. 🙂
Butt $700
Carbon Fiber Shaft $450
Purple Heart Shaft: $400
Wood shaft: (any species, w/ matching ring) $350
- Maple
- Birch
- Ash
- Sassafras
- Walnut
- White Oak
- Hickory
- Black Locust
- Cherry
Matching wood joint protectors: $75 each
Extension (3″ – 6″): $250
Extension (7 “- 12″): $300
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Stick 131: Saturday Morning at the Beech
Quick View$775.006 monthly payments. No interest. To see payment plans, add cue to your cart and view your cart.
Butt & Joint Protector: $775Woods Used: spalted/stabilized beech (handle), maple (blue)Butt Length: 30″Core: Shagbark Hickory, baby!Collars: Brown phenolicFull Cue Likely Natural Weight: 18 – 19 oz.Pin: 3/8-10 mod, radial, QRGlue Date: 3/17/25Earliest Finish Date: 10/25
CAFETERIA STYLE:
Carbon Fiber Shaft $450
Purple Heart Shaft: $400
Wood shaft: (any species, w/ matching ring) $350
- Maple
- Birch
- Ash
- Sassafras
- Walnut
- White Oak
- Hickory
- Honey Locust
- Cherry
Matching wood joint protectors: $75 each
Extension (3″ – 6″): $250
Extension (7 “- 12″): $300
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Stick 129: Fortune Favors
Quick View$775.00Butt & Joint Protector: $775
6 monthly payments. No interest. To see payment plans, add cue to your cart and view your cart.
Here’s another that’s been in pieces for weeks and I finally grabbed a half morning to get it together.
Naturally, the pics right now are crappy. HOWEVER….
I shoulda called the butt JUST DAMN or BONKERS BEAUTY or HOLD MY TUNA SAMMICH, JANE; something over the top.
Because the spalting and grain are out of this world. Squiggles all over the joint. The deepest burnt red (rings) I’ve ever managed. A black/green handle with the craziest network of surface level pocks and crevices — already partly filled with purple mica/epoxy.
Fortune Favors the bold.
Are you?
As with all my hanging butts, if you’re seriously, seriously mulling a purchase but have to make sure you have an explanation that’ll hold water with the Mrs, let me know you need a 24-hour password protect and I’ll lock the page for you.
Butt: $775
CF shaft: $450
Shaft JP: gift
Extension: $250
Total: $1,475
Build notes: CF shaft 12.2mm, cue weight 19.25-19.5 oz; 60″ total length, black Tomahawk ferrule?, white tomahawk cf insert, radial pin
Woods Used: spalted/stabilized maple
Butt Length: 30″
Core: Shagbark Hickory, baby!
Collars: Red/brown phenolic
Full Cue Likely Natural Weight: 17 – 19 oz.
Pin: 3/8-10, radial, QR
Glue Date: 2/19/25
Earliest Finish Date: 9/25
CAFETERIA STYLE:
Butt $700 (burl handle/spalted wood)
Carbon Fiber Shaft $450
Purple Heart Shaft: $400
Wood shaft: (any species, w/ matching ring) $350
- Maple
- Birch
- Ash
- Sassafras
- Walnut
- White Oak
- Hickory
- Black Locust
- Cherry
Matching wood joint protectors: $75 each
Extension (3″ – 6″): $250
Extension (7 “- 12″): $300
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Stick 128: El Jefe
Quick View$775.00Butt & Joint Protector: $775
6 monthly payments. No interest. To see payment plans, add cue to your cart and view your cart.
You have options. Already have a favorite shaft? El Jefe would love to be its boss. Want a full badass Character Cue experience? Pair with a purpleheart shaft for the ultimate break monster. What’s that? You already have a break cue? No problem. El Jefe is the alpha. The prime. The cock of the walk. Pair with carbon fiber, birch, or any damn thing you want.
Purpleheart is dense, with a Janka score of 2,520 lbs. American Hornbeam (that stunningly-grained blue handle section) (AKA Ironwood in these parts), has a Janka of 1,780, making it among the densest US hardwoods.
That’s what makes El Jefe, well… Boss.
What is Janka? From Wood Database:
“The actual number listed in the wood profile is the amount of pounds-force (lbf) or newtons (N) required to imbed a .444″ (11.28 mm) diameter steel ball into the wood to half the ball’s diameter. This number is given for wood that has been dried to a 12% moisture content.”
Hard maple, prized among many cue builders, has a Janka of only 1,450.
What’s it mean, really? First, the wood is harder to dent. Second, it’s heavy. Third, the hit is as close to zero vibration as you’re going to get. Just a solid connection with no backsass. When El Jefe says move, the cue ball moves. When El Jefe says dance, the cue ball dances. You get the point.
El Jefe, simply, is the boss.
Woods Used: Purple heart, Ironwood (American Hornbeam), Maple (red rings), Beech (black rings). Also 4 thick copper rings.
Butt Length: 30″
Core: Purple heart forearm tenoned into handle/butt sleeve
Collars: black phenolic
Probable full cue natural weight: 20-22 oz.
Pin: 3/8-10; radial, or QR
Glue Date: 2/17/25
Earliest Finish Date: 9/25
CAFETERIA STYLE:
Butt $700
Carbon Fiber Shaft $450
Purple Heart Shaft: $400
Wood shaft: (any species, w/ matching ring) $350
- Maple
- Birch
- Ash
- Sassafras
- Walnut
- White Oak
- Hickory
- Black Locust
- Cherry
Matching wood joint protectors: $75 each
Extension (3″ – 6″): $250
Extension (7 “- 12″): $300
